| Show A REPULSIVE DRUG the most roost lucrative in which the egyptian jews ever en gazed ceased in the seventeenth century for d long iong time mummy wab was u as an article of great value in the practice of medicine it was found in all the drug drag shops of europeans Europe and even to this day mummy powder mixed with cam eps ells milk butter is regarded by the arabs as a sovereign remedy for external and internal bruises make mummy of my flesh and sell me to the apothecaries was not a mere figure of speech the repulsive drug was prescribed by the physicians of the sixteenth century for fractures concussions palpitations of the heart and the like while even lord bacon says mummy hath bath great force in ching of blood many speculators embarked in the trade and vast sums were expended in purchasing mummies principally from thet jews in egypt tombs and catacombs cata combs were searched and when the government forbade the transportation of the bodies from their sepulchral pule brai bral ral rai habitation the jews had bad recourse to fraud and imposition in order to supply the great demand for mummy they embalm ed dead bodies and sold them to the christians in like manner the bodies of slaves of executed criminals of unclaimed strangers and even the desiccated corpses of travelers buried in the sands of the desert were converted into gold for the jew and medicine for the gentile bithe the jews in knickerbocker |
